Dilemmas of Schooling (RLE Edu L)

Teaching and Social Change

Ann Berlak, Harold Berlak

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN: 9781136471049
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

This study illuminates how the everyday activity of teachers raises profound economic, cultural, ethical, political and research issues, and provides a new and fruitful way of examining the practice of teaching. The first part of the book offers a detailed description of sensitively recorded school situations, arising from work carried out in a number of British primary schools. From the analysis of their research the authors constructed a theoretical perspective for looking at schooling in the form of sixteen 'dilemmas'; the second half of the book is concerned with this perspective, and shows how the dilemmas constitute a language for looking at everyday schooling and relating it to more general political, social and cultural issues. The book thus spans the gap in educational thinking between work with a firm empirical base and specifically theoretical studies.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface and Acknowledgements
• Part One Controversies and Context
• Part Two The Schools
• Part Three Towards a Theory and Language of Schooling
• Part Four Interpretations of the Schools
• Part Five Engaging in Critical Inquiry
• Bibliography
• Name Index
• Subject Index